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US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

January 18, 2012
US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

  New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]

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Vietnam women with massive tumors to undergo more surgery 

January 16, 2012
Vietnam women with massive tumors to undergo more surgery 

Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had massive tumors removed by a renowned US surgeon early this month will go under the knife again as they are recovering well, a local hospital said Saturday. According to the [...]

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Vietnam women with massive tumors recover after surgeries 

January 14, 2012
Vietnam women with massive tumors recover after surgeries 

Kieu Thi My Dung, 22, at Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital after a seven-hour operation on January 6. Two Vietnamese women who had their massive tumors removed in high-profile surgeries last week are doing well, the news website of Vietnam Media Corp. quoted local doctors as saying Monday. Dr. Tran Quyet Tien, vice [...]

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Doctors induce medical coma after removing enormous tumor 

January 7, 2012
Doctors induce medical coma after removing enormous tumor 

Doctors performing surgery to remove Nguyen Duy Hai's 82-kilogram tumor at Ho Chi Minh City's FV Hospital on Jan 5. A man whose giant tumor was removed in a high-profile operation Thursday remains unconscious after being put under a medically induced coma, doctors at Ho Chi Minh City’s FV Hospital told the press Friday. Nguyen Duy Hai, [...]

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Doctors remove facial tumors of Vietnamese woman 

January 6, 2012
Doctors remove facial tumors of Vietnamese woman 

Kieu Thi My Dung (L) had facial tumors removed on Friday. An American surgeon and Vietnamese doctors performed surgery to remove abnormal facial tumors from a 22-year-old girl at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital on Friday, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported. The operation on Kieu Thi My Dung started at 10 a.m. and ended [...]

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Patient with no kidney put on dialysis  

December 19, 2011
Patient with no kidney put on dialysis  

Hua Cam Tu, a 37-year-old woman who had both her kidneys removed by doctors without her permission, is being treated at the Can Tho General Hospital. A Mekong Delta hospital said Thursday it would provide free dialysis treatment to a patient whose health is getting worse after doctors removed both two kidneys without her consent, the Nguoi [...]

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Doctors give up on 90-kg tumor 

December 3, 2011
Doctors give up on 90-kg tumor 

Nguyen Duy Hai will not be able to get rid of his 90-kilogram tumor. Doctors at Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Tumor Hospital have decided against removing a local man’s 90-kilogram tumor, saying the procedure would cost the patient his life, VnExpress reported. They said Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, had pleural effusion, which would cause [...]

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Vietnamese doctors unsure about surgery to remove 90-kg tumor 

November 13, 2011
Vietnamese doctors unsure about surgery to remove 90-kg tumor 

Nguyen Duy Hai with his 90-kilogram tumor at the Ho Chi Minh City Tumor Hospital. Vietnamese doctors said Wednesday (November 9) that a surgery to remove a 90-kilogram tumor on a 31-year-old man – the largest tumor ever recorded in Vietnam – may not be carried out as planned given the man’s unstable condition. Le [...]

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Two-headed baby dead 

October 28, 2011
Two-headed baby dead 

The conjoined twins are put under special treatment at the Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Tuoi Tre newspaper) A “two-headed baby infant” who made headlines nationwide has died eleven days after being born to a 35-year-old woman in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on October 12. Doctors at the [...]

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Surgery to separate conjoined twins risky, Vietnamese doctors say 

October 21, 2011
Surgery to separate conjoined twins risky, Vietnamese doctors say 

The conjoined twins are put under special treatment at the Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: Tuoi Tre newspaper) It is rather risky to conduct a surgery to separate the conjoined twins who were initially dubbed as “two-headed baby girl,” doctors of Ho Chi Minh City-based Children’s Hospital 1 told Thanh Nien. [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...